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<p>[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 63735, member: 708"]Quality. Simply put.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I took the quantity road to begin with, it's a good step and everyone should do it. For when you begin you need to gain knowledge of many serieses so that you can learn to grade across the board and learn the differences in how alloys wear etc. When you are ready to specialise you can simply sell off all your common coins and respend the money generated on higher quality coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure many of us have been there. I too used to think that there'd be certain coins i'd never have. Until one day i had this bright idea of selling off all the coins that i'd amassed over the years that no longer interested me and well i ended up with some very nice coins expensive coins when i'd done. I since grouped the expensive ones together sold them off and used the funds to go up to the next level.</p><p><br /></p><p>It all depends upon how attached you get to your coins. I generally don't get all that attached, because i know i'm only their guardians and i can't take them with me when i kick the bucket so i figured i might as well own them just for a little while and then go and get another one i always wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully when i'm old and grey i can look back and say, 'yep i've had one of those, had one of them, had that, and i used to own one of those too'. I don't think there'd be many regrets, the only thing i'd regret is thinking, 'i never had one of those and i always wanted one', or 'why didn't i buy that when i had the chance?'[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 63735, member: 708"]Quality. Simply put. I took the quantity road to begin with, it's a good step and everyone should do it. For when you begin you need to gain knowledge of many serieses so that you can learn to grade across the board and learn the differences in how alloys wear etc. When you are ready to specialise you can simply sell off all your common coins and respend the money generated on higher quality coins. I'm sure many of us have been there. I too used to think that there'd be certain coins i'd never have. Until one day i had this bright idea of selling off all the coins that i'd amassed over the years that no longer interested me and well i ended up with some very nice coins expensive coins when i'd done. I since grouped the expensive ones together sold them off and used the funds to go up to the next level. It all depends upon how attached you get to your coins. I generally don't get all that attached, because i know i'm only their guardians and i can't take them with me when i kick the bucket so i figured i might as well own them just for a little while and then go and get another one i always wanted. Hopefully when i'm old and grey i can look back and say, 'yep i've had one of those, had one of them, had that, and i used to own one of those too'. I don't think there'd be many regrets, the only thing i'd regret is thinking, 'i never had one of those and i always wanted one', or 'why didn't i buy that when i had the chance?'[/QUOTE]
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